'Place of the Wild Roses'[2]) is a Tsimshian band government, at Lax Kw'alaams, a community near Prince Rupert in British Columbia, Canada.
In 1857 an Anglican lay missionary named William Duncan brought Christianity to Lax Kw'alaams, but, feeling that he was competing in vain with the dissipated fort atmosphere for Tsimshian souls, he relocated about 350 of his flock to Metlakatla, at Metlakatla Pass just to the south.
It was in Port Simpson in 1931 that the Native Brotherhood of British Columbia was founded as the province's first Native-run rights organization.
Approximately 500 died in the 1862 Pacific Northwest smallpox epidemic, shortly after Duncan's departure.
The legal and political interests of the people of Lax Kw'alaams vis à vis the provincial and federal governments are represented by the Allied Tsimshian Tribes Association, which represents the hereditary chiefs of the Nine Tribes.
In 2020, Lax Kw'alaams began discussions with the provincial and federal governments, to begin moving away from the Indian Act, through a possible treaty.